Sentence of death was passed, with an accession of eighty fresh votes. He was put in prison, and a few days afterwards drank the hemlock, after much noble discourse, which Plato records in the Phaedo. Further, according to some, he composed a paean beginning:
All hail, Apollo, Delos' lord!
Hail Artemis, ye noble pair!
Hail Artemis, ye noble pair!
Dionysodorus denies that he wrote the paean. He also composed a fable of Aesop, not very skillfully, beginning:
"Judge not, ye men of Corinth," Aesop cried,
"Of virtue as the jury-courts decide."
"Of virtue as the jury-courts decide."
—Diogenes Laërtius, Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 2.42
IMAGE: Gavin Hamilton, Apollo and Artemis (1770)
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